How to send email in Django to register account?

Question

I want to create a signup form that sends an activation key to user. This sent email shows a log-in activation link to continue to create a account. Now what i did is that i wrote these lines in my settings.py file to sent email.

ACCOUNT_ACTIVATION_DAYS=7
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'emailaddress@gamil.com'

but this is not working well or may be the way i am using this is wrong. I need your help to solve this problem. Thanks.

What does 'not working well' mean? Is it working or not? However, hope you didn't give your username and password as blank in your code too... :) — QuestionEverything, Mar 20 '14 at 09:20
@Liarez thank's for reply. i am new to django framework. i followed this article http://www.michelepasin.org/blog/2011/01/14/setting-up-django-registration/ to know about this. Can you please guide me.This links says nothing about email function — Tameen Malik, Mar 20 '14 at 09:21
@HasanIqbalAnik i mean it's not working like what i want! and what to put in host or password? — Tameen Malik, Mar 20 '14 at 09:22
if you working on your local machine set EMAIL_USE_TLS = True, or comment this line. then test. — Yogesh dwivedi Geitpl, Mar 20 '14 at 09:33
see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18507843/how-to-use-gmail-as-your-smtp-server-for-youtrack — vartec, Mar 20 '14 at 09:42

Yogesh dwivedi Geitpl · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-20T09:43:57.467

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You can try this settings in your setting.py.

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST='smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT=587
EMAIL_HOST_USER='your gmail user name'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD='your gmail password'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_USE_SSL = True

Test Email configuration : in your command line :

$ python manage.py shell

from django.core.mail import send_mail
send_mail("testing", "Did this work?", "no-reply@abc.net", ["email where you want to send ", ], fail_silently=False)

edited Mar 20 '14 at 09:43

answered Mar 20 '14 at 09:34

Yogesh dwivedi Geitpl

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value error: need more than one value to unpack in smtp.py file – Tameen Malik Mar 20 '14 at 09:47
Have to try this line properly : send_mail("testing", "Did this work?", "abc@gmail.com", ["abc@gmail.com"], fail_silently=False) – Yogesh dwivedi Geitpl Mar 20 '14 at 09:52
thank you yogesh ! :) one more thing how to send activation key and how to receive that? – Tameen Malik Mar 20 '14 at 09:52
for authentication which app are you using? – Yogesh dwivedi Geitpl Mar 20 '14 at 09:53
yogesh i am using 'django.contrib.auth'. – Tameen Malik Mar 20 '14 at 09:55
you can use custom user model or any one already build app for login and registration. http://www.sofokus.com/blogi/custom-user-model/ http://www.roguelynn.com/words/django-custom-user-models/ – Yogesh dwivedi Geitpl Mar 20 '14 at 09:58
can you please provide me some helpful links about these user models. – Tameen Malik Mar 20 '14 at 09:59
http://www.sofokus.com/blogi/custom-user-model/ http://www.roguelynn.com/words/django-custom-user-models/ http://blackglasses.me/2013/09/17/custom-django-user-model/ – Yogesh dwivedi Geitpl Mar 20 '14 at 10:00

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 20 '14 at 09:37

This hast nothing to to with Django or Python, you're Gmail details are misconfigured

EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''

Above needs to be set to your Gmail user (email) and password

EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
EMAIL_PORT = 587

TLS is required, it needs to be set to True. In consequence port has to be set to SMTP over SSL, which is 465

How to send email in Django to register account?

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